++Ed Kilgore at Washington Monthly has an excellent piece on the Beltway pundits blather about the Corker Bill. "Posturing On Iran" seems to capture the GOP's line even though as Ed quotes Harold Koh that Obama seems adroit at making lemonade from lemons.
++If you want a goofy but accurate timeline on Iran's increased influence in the region, Jon Stewart has a bit on Dick Cheney portrayed as a red balloon. Stewart plays tapes of Cheney attacking Obama ,suggesting President Obama wants to bring America down.
++Stewart rightly suggests the Iraq invasion gave Iran the opening they craved with the fall of their mortal enemy. He then shows how the United States picked Maliki, a militant Shi'ite who lived in Iran for years, as the Prime Minister. Also that Iran offered to cut their nuclear program in 2003 but the Bush Administration instead stepped up sanctions.
++Stewart produced the smoking gun--Cheney as head of Halliburton talking about how American businesses were losing out on business because the Clinton Administration was in love with sanctions. In 2000, Cheney opened a Halliburton office in Tehran, anticipating billions of dollars of contracts.
++I would add that Cheney's own memoir was curiously silent on the issue of Iran. He put the burden on Condi Rice for Iranian matters.
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